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Gabin (French:) is an Italian pop band consisting of Massimo Bottini and Filippo Clary. Their name is a reference to the most popular French actor of the 1930s and 1940s – Jean Gabin . Releases
Razzia sur la chnouf (French for "Raid on the Dope") is a 1955 French gangster film directed by Henri Decoin that stars Jean Gabin, Lino Ventura, Lila Kedrova and Magali Noël. The screenplay, based on a novel by Auguste Le Breton , explores the contemporary drug scene in Paris and the efforts of the police to limit it.
Gas-Oil is a 1955 French crime drama film directed by Gilles Grangier and starring Jean Gabin, Jeanne Moreau, Gaby Basset and Ginette Leclerc. It was shot at the Epinay Studios in Paris and on location at a variety of places. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Colombier.
French Cancan (also known as Only the French Can) is a 1955 French-Italian musical film written and directed by Jean Renoir and starring Jean Gabin, Francoise Arnoul, and María Félix. It marked Renoir's return to France and to French cinema after an exile that began in 1940.
Gabin was unhappy within the studio system and the pressure to do publicity, and after the war, he resumed working in France exclusively. [ 4 ] Bosley Crowther , film critic for The New York Times , questioned the direction of the film, especially its focus on actor Jean Gabin: "But all of them need much more than a vague and irresolute script ...
Verdict is a 1974 French-Italian drama film, directed by André Cayatte, starring Sophia Loren, Jean Gabin and Julien Bertheau. [1] A French judge comes under intense personal pressure to acquit a man who is accused of murdering his lover. [2] It was also released under the title Jury of One.
The New York Times called it "meandering, stilted and extremely flat melodrama" which "spurts to life towards the end" when Gabin meets George Raft and "the two men lock eyeballs like two king cobras" with "a chilling authenticity". [5] The film was a moderate success at the French box office. [1]
Port of Shadows (French: Le Quai des brumes [lə kɛ de bʁym], "The dock of mists") is a 1938 French film directed by Marcel Carné.An example of poetic realism, it stars Jean Gabin, Michel Simon and Michèle Morgan.